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Apr 17 2013

MedPAC Annual Report, Part II

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In today's post on the MedPAC Annual Report to Congress, we cover payment observations and recommendations on several provider types, including physicians, home health and nursing homes.
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Apr 16 2013

2013 MedPAC Report to Congress, Part I

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
This is the first of several posts on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commissions 2013 Annual Report to Congress, which covers a variety of provider types and other issues. In this…
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Apr 15 2013

Genomics and Personalized Medicine

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Several articles and commentaries in recent Journal of the American Medical Association issues focus on the role of genomics and personalized medicine in health care.
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Apr 12 2013

Employment-Based Health Insurance

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A Robert Wood Johnson report describes the ongoing decline in employment-based health insurance, driven by ongoing large premium increases and exacerbated by general declines in the work population resulting from…
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Apr 11 2013

Patient Satisfaction Ratings

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A report from the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute discusses the importance of patient experience and satisfaction ratings and the difficulty consumers have in accessing information from various rating sources.
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Apr 10 2013

Universal Considerations for Lowering Health Care Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An article in the current Health Affairs discusses the worldwide issue of how to limit health spending while at the same time improving people's health and the health care they…
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Apr 09 2013

Pay for Performance in Lower Income Countries

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
While we often focus our attention on the health care problems of the developed world, lower income countries have bigger issues, many of which are being addressed with the same…
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Apr 08 2013

Provider/Patient Relationships and Quality of Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A report from the Health Foundation and Rand Europe examines how efforts to change the relationship between providers and patients may affect the quality of health care.
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Apr 05 2013

Exchanges and Navigators

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The department of Health and Human Services has issued rules regarding the role and use of "navigators" in the health insurance exchanges called for by the reform act.
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Apr 04 2013

InstaMed Price Report

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Health care payment technology firm InstaMed puts out a report on 2012 trends in health care payments.
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Kevin RocheThe Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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This is an outstanding report on total global drug spending and trends, with projections out to 2025.  It helps you understand this important area of health care, which does much...
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The Office of the Actuary annual report on national health spending, covering 2018.
December 7, 2019
2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
October 1, 2019
MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
June 18, 2019

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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com. © Roche Consulting, LLC. Terms of Use.

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